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SPECIAL MULTI-DAY EVENT: “A TALE OF TWO WOMEN” (APRIL 24-27)

Join us for a program about war crimes in Italy during World War II and about a new Berkeley initiative that combats impunity for similar crimes today. The events that took place in Italy during World War II inspired a major Italian novel, an Oscar-winning Italian film, a critically-acclaimed American play, and most recently, an opera jointly commissioned by San Francisco Opera and Teatro Regio di Torino in 2015. Yet despite the myriad ways this dark chapter in history has been remembered in the arts, these war crimes have been largely forgotten in official histories. University of California scholars will join a renowned Italian film critic and Bay Area performing artist in exploring the struggle to confront this moment in light of the postwar order and the evolving discourse of human rights since 1945.